The Neglected Wife: Now Watch the Grove Roar

he Beaumont fortune, bound by an ancient Life-Pact

ts, was intrinsically linked to the magnificent Patr

velyn a

tantly ensnared by his childhood swe

hope lay in draining the life from our

e ancient Redwoods, looked at me, not at Evelyn, and demande

wait for m

hen smashed it against the Patriarch' s ancien

orror as my hair faded to grey and my body withered,

nded by Evelyn's manipulative lies, even fo

profound spiritual severing, a dismissal of eve

e, ancient bond for a baseles

e forest's magic, claiming Evelyn' s life ma

ection for granted, but now they

ough my suffering: this desecra

t broken, nurturing a single, tiny seedlin

spirit transcended, merging

the land, no longer protected by our ancient magic, began to reclaim what was truly i